Muslims saying Jews planting Gharqad trees to protect railroad

As you probably know, there is an Islamic hadith that says:

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

This is quoted in Hamas' charter.

Yediot Aharonot reports that Israel is planting trees to protect the railroad between Ashkelon and Sderot from rocket fire and especially from anti-tank missiles. Residents were concerned after a couple of Hamas missile attacks on vehicles near Gaza, and Israelis decides that a "green" solution was the best.

Now, Egyptian newspaper Youm7 - and many others - are seizing on this story as proof that the prophecy being revealed in the hadith is coming true!

The newspaper is claiming that Israel is deliberately planting gharqad trees to protect the trains. Most commentators associate the gharqud tree with the boxtree, which is much shorter than the ones pictured here.

Then again, since Allah's word is true, whatever tree the Jews plant must be the gharqad!

For another great example of how Jews used a different type of tree to their advantage - the eucalyptus - check out the famous story of Eli Cohen.